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Gods of medieval Japan. Volume 4, From stars to stones / Bernard Faure.

De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Complete eBook-Package 2026 Available online

Format:: Book
Author/Creator:: Faure, Bernard, author.
Language:: English
Physical Description:: 1 online resource (489 pages) : b illustrations (some color)
Place of Publication:: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 2026.
Biography/History:: Faure Bernard: Bernard Faure is Emeritus Kao Professor in Japanese Religion at Columbia University and Emeritus George Edwin Burnell Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University. Bernard Faure is Emeritus Kao Professor in Japanese Religion at Columbia University and Emeritus George Edwin Burnell Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University.
Summary:: Bernard Faure is Emeritus Kao Professor in Japanese Religion at Columbia University and Emeritus George Edwin Burnell Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University.
Contents:: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preamble; Synopsis; 1: Back to Beginnings; Fatum and Fetus; Conception; The Red and the White; The Five Stages of Gestation; The Intermediary Being; Mikkyō's Analogical Thought; Mikkyō Embryology; Gestation; The Intermediary Being and Consciousness; Meditation and Ritual; The kalala Stage; 2: Rising to Stardom; Chinese Astrology; The Pole Star; The Northern and Southern Dippers; The Seven Stars in Esoteric Buddhism; The Three Terraces; The Seven Stars and Yakushi; The Seven Stars in Tendai; The Seven Stars and the Seven Hie Shrines; Mikkyō Stars; Myōken; The Seven-star Nyoirin; Stars of Fundamental Destiny; The honmyō Star and the Three Mansions; The honmyō / ganjin Star(s); The honmyō ganjin Star and Jupiter; From Astrology to Embryology; The Pairing of hun and po; Embryological Interpretations; Butsugen and Kinrin; The Relics and the Jewel; Architectural Symbolism; Venus and Nonduality; The Rise of the Auxiliary Star; Aizen and the Stars; Codetta; 3: Under the Sign of Gemini; The Healing Buddha; Scriptural Sources; Evolution of the Twin Devas; Prototypes; One, Two, or Several?; Siming and Silu; Lads of Good and Evil; Yama's daṇḍa Staff; Jūzenji as kushōjin; Kushōjin as Infernal Scribes; Kushōjin as Protectors; Variations on the kushōjin; Allegorical Interpretations; Congenital Obstacles; The kushōjin and Consciousness; Astral Aspects; The Twin Motif; The Logic of Bipartition; Genius and Congeniality (or the Lack Thereof); 4: Beneath the Heavenly Canopy; The Facts of (Early) Life; Childbirth Rituals; Placenta Tumuli; Symbolism of the Placenta; The Placenta as Protection; Placenta Symbols; Placenta Symbolism in Shugendō.; Placenta Deities; The Placenta Deity and the kushōjin; A Co-evolving Deity; Yuna Kōjin; Chinese and Korean Cases; The Case of Shōten (Vināyaka); The Usual Suspects; Datsueba; Elusive Origins; "Gimme Some Skin"; From Ambivalence to Polarity; The Vanishing Mediator; A Genial Companion; 5: Buddhism Through the Back Door; Buddhas in the Basement; The Backdoor Origins of sarugaku; Ushirodo Deities; Matarajin, God of the ushirodo?; Enters Okina; The Old Man as Divine Archetype; Okina in Shintō; The Buddhist Interpretation; Okina in Shugendō; Matarajin and Okina; Matarajin and the Seven Stars; Zenchiku and the Meishukushū; The Content of the Meishukushū; Okina as Shukujin; Hata no Kawakatsu; Okina's Other Manifestations; The Okina Mask; The Demon Mask; Okina and Sanbasō; Okina and the Buddha's Relics; The Cosmic Okina; Okina as a Placenta Deity; Zenchiku's Ideology; 6: Astral Deities and Lithic Gods; Patron of the Performing Arts; Yanagita Kunio's Contribution; The shaguji as Liminal Deity; Shaguji and ateji; Strengths and Limitations of Yanagita's Methodology; Yanagita's Successors; Shaguji, Semimaru, and Sakagami; Shukujin and shaguji; The mishaguji of Suwa; The shukujin and the biwa hōshi; The shukujin and Jūzenji; Shukujin and Benzaiten; Shukujin at Kasuga; Daishōgun and Shōgun Jizō; The Shōgun Mounds; Shōgun Jizō; Shukujin and Monkeys; The shukujin and kemari; The Monkey of Folk Beliefs; The Symbolic Monkey; The Monkeys of Mount Hiei; The Janus-faced Monkey; Sarugaku and Monkeys; Monkeys and Smallpox; Kōshin and Monkeys; Shaguji and Lithic Cults; Shukujin and Outcasts; Shukujin and Shukō Shrines; Coda; The Rise and Decline of Kenmitsu Buddhism.; Kenmitsu Buddhism as an Analogical Ontology; Innate Awakening; A Deeper Duality; A Reactionary Ideology?; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Notes:: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:: 0-8248-9979-2; 9780824899790
OCLC:: 1569915761

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